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Doctor Jailed for Plotting to Surgically Alter Immigrant's Fingerprints
Doctor Jailed for Plotting to Surgically Alter Immigrant's Fingerprints
Published February 11, 2011 | Fox News Latino How much is masking your identity worth? A doctor was sentenced to prison for conspiring to surgically alter the fingerprints of an undocumented immigrant for $4,500. A Boston federal judge sentenced Dr. Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou to one year and one day in prison. Elias Zaiter-Pou, originally from the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of conspiring to conceal unauthorized immigrants from detection by law enforcement authorities. Prosecutors say the physician brought surgical equipment, antibiotics and pain medication to a hotel in Woburn and agreed to alter the fingerprints of a government informant for $4,500. Prosecutors say they have video and audio evidence showing Zaiter-Pou describing to the informant how he would surgically remove a portion of the fingertip, then suture it back together to make a new unrecognizable fingerprint. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock ordered the 62-year-old Zaiter-Pou be deported to the Dominican Republic at the end of his prison sentence. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/new...#ixzz1DhcUZyFp |
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